Mark writes film score!

[Jules]

The film afore mentioned surely has just been released as 'War Horse' which we incidentally have seen twice already, and no Mark did not do the soundtrack.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Horse_(film)

War horse and Private Peaceful are two different movies based in two different books of the same writter.

The first one is an american film by Steven Spielberg, and the second one a british film by Pat O'Connor (the same than CAL)

http://www.fluidityfilms.com/privatepeaceful/

[Knopflerfan]

Many thanks for that, I have duly done some more research and found the following link too:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_Peaceful

Cant wait for that.....

[Jackal]

War horse and Private Peaceful are two different movies based in two different books of the same writter.

The first one is an american film by Steven Spielberg, and the second one a british film by Pat O'Connor (the same than CAL)

http://www.fluidityfilms.com/privatepeaceful/

http://www.fluidityfilms.com/privatepeaceful/cast.html

Mark is listed as composer at the bottom.

[qjamesfloyd]

But according to Guy, Mark hasn't recorded a soundtrack, so, I wonder what is going on?

[Hophead]

If you carefully read the Wiki article...you'll find why Guy probably said that...."A feature film version of Private Peaceful is due to be released in 2012.[2] Directed by Pat O'Connor with a screenplay by Simon Reade, it stars George Mackay as Teenage Tommo and Samuel Bottomley as young Tommo. The music score was to be written by Mark Knopfler - his second film score in a decade[citation needed], but Rachel Portman has been hired to do a new score."  Maybe he decided he couldn't finish it..with all that was going on.

[superval99]

Thanks Hophead -  However, I must admit to feeling a bit disappointed!   

[Hophead]

Thanks Hophead -  However, I must admit to feeling a bit disappointed!   

Me too Val..my heart sank when I read that line. His soundtracks are just haunting.

[qjamesfloyd]

Ok, they need to update there website then, because that still says MK, but I have e-mailed Fluidity Films, so we'll wait and see what they say.

[Jules]

If you carefully read the Wiki article...you'll find why Guy probably said that...."A feature film version of Private Peaceful is due to be released in 2012.[2] Directed by Pat O'Connor with a screenplay by Simon Reade, it stars George Mackay as Teenage Tommo and Samuel Bottomley as young Tommo. The music score was to be written by Mark Knopfler - his second film score in a decade[citation needed], but Rachel Portman has been hired to do a new score."  Maybe he decided he couldn't finish it..with all that was going on.

If this comes from wiki, we still have a chance, anyone could edit the wiki, I can write there that Bob Dylan is going to write the soundtrack if I want 

Anyway, this piece of news, if its true, has let me down 

[Hophead]

If you carefully read the Wiki article...you'll find why Guy probably said that...."A feature film version of Private Peaceful is due to be released in 2012.[2] Directed by Pat O'Connor with a screenplay by Simon Reade, it stars George Mackay as Teenage Tommo and Samuel Bottomley as young Tommo. The music score was to be written by Mark Knopfler - his second film score in a decade[citation needed], but Rachel Portman has been hired to do a new score."  Maybe he decided he couldn't finish it..with all that was going on.

If this comes from wiki, we still have a chance, anyone could edit the wiki, I can write there that Bob Dylan is going to write the soundtrack if I want  

Anyway, this piece of news, if its true, has let me down  

So true Jbaent...Wiki is not exactly trustworthy...articles can be edited by anyone (wait..did I just see that the soundtrack credits were edited again..and the new writer is one B. Dylan??  ). It does seem to coincide with what Guy posted though  

[twm]

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0006235/

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1667439/fullcredits#cast

And you can see, from the plot, why MK would have been considered:


Private Peaceful (2012)
 
 A classic rites of passage story of two brothers and the exuberance and pain of their teenage love for the same girl, the pressures of their feudal family life, the horrors and folly of war and the ultimate price of courage and cowardice. Written by Guy de Beaujeu
 
Private Peaceful details the gritty rural lives and loves of Tommo and Charlie - two young brothers - and their poor Devonshire family from 1909 until 1916, when the outbreak of war destroys their country idyll. Both join up (one under age) leaving behind the beautiful Molly who is the love of both their lives. The young men survive gas attacks, shelling, German troops and the appalling deaths of their close friends. But one thing they cannot escape is summary military justice. Written by Guy de Beaujeu
 

[Hophead]

You could put together a soundtrack for this just from his existing catalogue.

[Jules]

I really hope that the reason MK is not doing this score is because he will have to waste more time touring with Dylan...

[vgonis]

It is quite peculiar, because I thought that at least two of the new songs performed at the last tour, were perfect, if not intended, for the OST. On the other hand, maybe the songs will be used, but the "filling" music, will be written by that other guy, so MK won't be getting the OST credit.
And I really hope that BD was not the reason for this.

[twm]

If MK and BD do tour together again, I still think it's going to be this coming autumn/fall. If I am right, I can't imagine that a prospective tour so far ahead would have affected MK's availability or willingness to do the soundtrack. After all, the film's is in post-production now, according to the imdb website..

As for the last MK/BD tour having affected MK's writing of the film tour, I don't know. If, as I indictaed in another post, someone could work up a rough chronology or calendar of MK's activities over the last year or so, it might become a bit clearer.